In this webinar, Dr Laurel Waterman will share ideas about how to do consciousness education, which explores perspectives on the source and nature of consciousness and their implications for ways of being, knowing, teaching, and learning, based on findings from her doctoral research project:Teaching with Consciousness: Scholars’ Experiences Teaching about Consciousness Beyond the Brain.
Thematic analysis of the narratives collected from the nine participants led to six themes: the three strands of consciousness education – culture, identity, and data; the role of experience; the challenge of integration; awareness of the story we are in; why consciousness education? – expanding notions of truth, self, and wellbeing; and teaching with consciousness. Together, these findings provide valuable insights into how to shift the paradigm for consciousness in formal education.T
his webinar by Dr Laurel Waterman will be followed by live Q&A.
About the Speaker
Dr Laurel Waterman
Dr Laurel Waterman holds a PhD in Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning with a focus on wellbeing from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. Her work explores consciousness education and its implications for ways of being, knowing, teaching, and learning.
She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Toronto Mississauga and is affiliated with the Alef Trust’s MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology. Dr Waterman is a co-founder of the Consciousness Education Project, a core member of the New Paradigm Navigators, and has served on the board of the Scientific and Medical Network.
